The Tale of Saigyo: Volume 25 by McKinney, Meredith

The Tale of Saigyo: Volume 25

The Tale of Saigyo is a poetic biography of the late Heian poet Saigyo (1118-90), one of...
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Author: Meredith McKinney
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The Tale of Saigyo: Volume 25 by McKinney, Meredith

The Tale of Saigyo: Volume 25

$56.43

The Tale of Saigyo: Volume 25

$56.43
Author: Meredith McKinney
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The Tale of Saigyo is a poetic biography of the late Heian poet Saigyo (1118-90), one of the most loved and respected poets in Japanese literary history. Its anonymous author followed the venerable poem-tale tradition by using 128 of Saigyo's finest and best-known poems and weaving around them facts and legends about the poet. The result is a biographical journey through his life. Saigyo moves from the life of a brilliant and favored young poet at the Heian imperial court, through a Buddhist awakening that leads him to cast off his worldly life and family ties and to transform himself into a wandering monk in search of salvation, through the vicissitudes of his long hard life on the road, to a final apotheosis as Buddhist saint in his famous death. While The Tale of Saigyo is on one level the story of the making of a Buddhist saint, it is also a biography of the trials and sorrows of an idealized poetic sensibility during a tempestuous time that saw the death of the Heian period, the Genpei Wars, and the beginning of the turbulent Kamakura period. The moving portrait of the wandering poet-monk that emerges through this tale crystallized the image of Saigyo and is felt in such later literary figures as Basho, who acknowledged Saigyo as his model and master.

Author: Meredith McKinney
Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
Published: 01/01/1998
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780939512836

About the Author
Meredith McKinney is a translator of modern and classical Japanese and a long-time resident of Kyoto.


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